Why Buying Black is Important
We’ve put together a list of resources you can use to find Black businesses, uplift your own business, and nurture your mental health along the way.
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This is part two of our blog about how understanding our relationship with money better can help us make better financial decisions 👊
This is part two of our blog about how understanding our relationship with money better can help us make better financial decisions 👊
Enjoy this wisdom from Spill Psychotherapist (and our new favorite money mentor), Graham Landi.
If you missed part one, check that out first, here.
So I said before that we buy things we can’t really afford because of the status and power we feel it gives us.
Another factor is FOMO, especially with young people, comparing yourself to your peers and agreeing to do things you can’t afford to do.
If all that wasn’t enough, we’ve also been told a lie in modern society that more is always better. We think that choice gives us freedom, actually it makes us miserable.
There's a fantastic Ted talk by Barry Schwartz called The Paradox of Choice. We think that choice and money are enablers but it makes us feel anxious because once we have more money, we don’t know what to do with it.
Ok, so four things.
As long as you think that money will bring you joy, you’ll never find joy :)
Any final thoughts?
It’s important to remember that what we need is often very different from what we strive for.
What we strive for, certainly in modern western society tends to be more, but that's not what we need.
What we need is emotional enrichment, more time with the people we love. They are the things that remind us what a joy is to be alive. All the time we're spending on trying to accumulate, we're missing that.
We’ve put together a list of resources you can use to find Black businesses, uplift your own business, and nurture your mental health along the way.
COVID-19 has hit people hard financially. This is $ redistribution at it’s best – collective gifts of $250 from those who want to help, to those who need it most.
Things are tough right now and turns out, pandemics don’t spare your finances. On a mission to help where we can, we made Random Acts of Relief. Long story short – Michael gifted some money to someone in need and left this truly iconic note alongside it. We did what anyone with an aching desire for words of affirmation right now would do and hit him up for MORE.